Patrin

The patrin is the clue which Gipsies leave behind them on the road they go, that other Gipsies who travel in it may know they have gone before. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

Also, do you know why the patrin webjournal hasn't been updated in 5 years? thanks! ❋ Unknown (2005)

If you're wondering about the name, patrin is the Romanes word for 'leaf'; the site's glossary says: ❋ Unknown (2004)

After all, a patrin is left to show the way, in case the ones following take the wrong route. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1954)

If it's so easy to lose the way there, there might be a patrin, although there are no camp-marks. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1954)

"Well, it's a patrin, a message, to say that me and my little dog have gone in the caravan too, " said Sniffer, picking up the leaves. ❋ Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 (1954)

Fleda had a fierce desire to spring to her feet and declare to them all that the sentence of the patrin had been passed upon Jethro Fawe, but she laid a hand upon herself. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

"Not since" -- she was going to say not since the morning her father had passed the sentence of the patrin upon him; but she paused in time. ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)

No, reia, Winnie Wynne ain't in Wales at all, else I'd never give up this patrin-chase. ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

And while the 'patrin-chase' went on, and the morning grew brighter and brighter, the Gypsy's lithe, catlike tread never faltered. ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

'The very airth under your feet seems to be a-sinkin' away, and the sweet sunshine itself seems as if it all belonged to the Gorgios, when you're a-follerin 'the patrin with the emp'y belly.' ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

The dukkeripen says you'll marry her yit; a love like yourn can follow the tryenest patrin as ever wur laid. ' ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

I've bin there the last three weeks on the patrin-chase, and not a patrin could I find. ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)

(as displayed in the following of the _patrin_ [Footnote: Trail]) is not long sight at all, but is the result of a peculiar faculty the ❋ Theodore Watts-Dunton (1873)